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Tag Archives: Rick Steves
Videos of London, 1927/2014
Here are two videos side by side of the same scenes in London from 1927 and 2014, courtesy of Big Geek Daddy’s Video of the Day. A week ago I posted “London in 25 hard minutes,” one of Rick Steves’s … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Preservation, Video
Tagged Big Geek Daddy, London, Luftwaffe, Modern Architecture, Preservation, Rick Steves, Video, Video of the Day
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London in 25 hard minutes
By hard I mean compared with the soft gray focus of the video in my last post, “Fifty soft minutes in Paris.” This is the Rick Steves tour of Britain’s capital. Steves’s voice is mellow enough, and the photography, unlike … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Video
Tagged Europe, Historic Architecture, London, Paris, Rick Steves, Tour, Video
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A French city, razed, rebuilt
We are still angry and sad about Nice, but let me shift the spotlight to another ancient French resort city, St.-Malo, on the Brittany coast of the English Channel. As I say, an ancient city, but it was shelled and … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Uncategorized
Tagged France, Malcolm Millais, Nice, Preservation, Reconstruction, Restoration, Rick Steves, St.-Malo France
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Buda + Pest = Budapest x 3
Here are three videos of Budapest, “Gay and Beautiful Budapest” from 1938 of 10:28 minutes in length; the second a Rick Steves travel TV episode from 2004 of 26:08 minutes; and, finally, from 2014, “AMAZING Walking Tour!!!” of the Hungarian … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Architecture History, Art and design, Blast from past, Other countries, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Budapest, Hungary, Rick Steves, Tourism, Travel, Video
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